Cemetery-car.



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CEMETERY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2. Isn.

Patented May 2l, 1918.

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J. M. KINCADE.

CEMETERY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2. |917.

1, M.. KmcAuL CEMETERY CAR. APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2. 19m

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CEMETERY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Application filed November 2, 1917. Serial No. 199,830.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN M. KINCADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cemetery-Cars,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in cemetery cars and has for its object to provide such a car useful in connection with the digging of graves or vaults in a cemetery and adapted to contain the dirt removed from such a grave or vault and to replace the dirt inside the grave at a single operation.

In the ordinary method of grave digging the dirt removed from the grave is simply piled by the side thereof and is, of course, very unsightly. It is a frequent custom to cover the dirt with a canvas or some other piece of cloth so as to hide it from the view y of the funeral party. After the funeral ceremony takes place the dirt is ordinarily shoveled back into the grave after the party has left the vicinity.

This invention contemplates the employment of a car having a dumping or removable bottom and provided with sides and a. top which may be independently adjusted. It is moved near the location where a grave is to be dug and the dirt removed from the grave instead of being placed on the ground is thrown into the car body. Then the car may be removed from the location of the grave if desired and the replacement of the top prevents rain or snow from affecting the dirt held in the car body. After a funeral service the car may be moved directly over the opened grave and the dirt held therein dumped into the grave at a single operation. This operation of returning the dirt to the grave may in fact take place in the presence of the funeral hparty if that is desired, as it requires only a moment to bring the car above the grave and to dump the dirt therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a plan view of a cemetery car in accordance with this invention, the car being shown as placed beside an open grave ready to be moved thereover so as to replace the dirt;

Fig. 2 shows an end view of one form of such a car with road wheels attached thereto so that it may be moved throughout the cemetery;

Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 but showing a set of track wheels attached to the car, these wheels moving on tracks placed beside the open grave, as indicated in the figure;

Fig. 4 is a detail showing a different form of dumping bottom;

Fig. 5 is a side view showing a further modified form of bottom and indicating the sides of the car las pivoted so that they may turn back;

Figs. 6 and 7 show an additional modified form of bottom, the bottom of Fig. 6 being shown in position to retain the dirt while in Fig. 7 the car is shown as over an open grave with the bottom depressed to permit dumping of the dirt.

Referring to Fig. l the car is shown as having sides 1 through which axles 2 run, these axles supporting road wheels 3. At right angles to the axles 2 arc axles for track wheels 5, these track wheels being provided with flanges so that they may run on tracks 6. .As shown these tracks are on opposite sides of a grave 7 and the tracks may be held the proper distance apart by any form of tie 8. A tongue 9 may be attached to the front axle 2 of the car so as to permit the attachment of horses to pull the car about the cemetery.. The road wheels 3 extend to points below the track wheels 5 and thus the wheels 5 do not touch the tracks G until the wheels 3 are removed. This may be, of course, done by jacking the axles 2 and then the wheels may be readily removed. Lowering the jacks permits the track wheels 5 to rest on the track 6 and support the weight of the car.

In the figures the car body is shown as provided with a top comprising pivoted portions 9 which may be turned back in the position shown in Fig. 3 or may be elevated to a perpendicular, as also shown in the same ligure. It will be understood that the portion 9 of the top which is nearest the grave 7 will be lowered, as shown at the right of Fig. 3, so as to permit the dirt being thrown thereover, while the portion 9 of the top at the left of this figure is maintained perpendicular as by a hook l0, so as to prevent dirt being thrown entirely over the car and landing on the ground at the opposite side. Fig. 5 also shows sides or ends of the car as being pivoted, the pivoted portions l1 being adapted to be raised to a vertical position,

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as shown, or being turned downwardly so as to permit the dirt from the grave to be thrown readily into the car from any desired direction. It will be understood. that the inequalities in the ground usually found incemeteries render the feature of being. able to ll the car with dirt from tion of great advantage.

The figures show various forms of car bottom which may be readily drawn so as to permit dumping of the dirt held* therein.

Fig. 5 shows a sliding bottom 12 in twopor-` tions. Fig. 2` shows a pivoted bottom which.y may be elevatedv or depressed'by a cordk 13 wound on a windlass 14 controlledby. a crank 15 and held against movement by a pawl 16. In theV form of Fig. 4: the bottom is centrally pivoted on a shaft 17 controlled bya crank 18. In. this form the portion 19' of' the bottom is rigid with the shaft' 17, while the portion. 20 is pivoted. thereto and' rests on a frame piece21 of the car body. The portion. 19. extends from the shaft 17 through a smaller distance than the portion 20 -and therefore will pass entirely inside the frame piece 21.

In theform of Fig. 6 the bottom is composed of two sections, each section having,v

parts 22'and23pivoted together, the part 22,

having' a flange 24 overlapping the part 23. This form of: bottom. may be oper/atedA by the windlass construction shown in Fig. 2 and' is indicated in Fig. 7' as directly over the grave and with the bottom depressed so as .to permitjthe movement of the dirt.

The operation of thecemetery carshown inthe drawings may be briefly recapitulated' asfollows: When a grave is to be dug the car ismoved adjacent thereto on itsroad wheels 3, a position being chosen such that the dirt may be readily thrown into the car. The top of the car is adjusted', as shown in Fig. 3 andthe end most distant from the grave may be elevated andthe side or endj nearest thegravedepressed so as to permit. the dirt to bereadily thrown into the car body. When the grave has been completely dug the car may be moved. entirely away from the vicinity if" desired' until the time for the funeralv service. Then it is returned" to the vicinity of the grave, the tracks 63 properly adjusted andthe road wheels then taken oft the car. and' the track. wheels'engaged with the tracks 6. Then after the conclusion of the funeral. ceremony the car may be pushed directly over the grave, as indicatedin Fig. 7, and the dirtimmediately deposited therein. The useof the road wheels 3 permits the car to be readily movedA throughout the cemetery, but if the car is to remain in the vicinity. ofthe grave the road wheels maybe detached before the grave is dug andthecar permitted toremain in the same positionof Fig. 1 until the funeral ceremony takes any direcstructionshown and" described, for obvious modifications willI occur to a personf skilledin the art'.

Having thus fully/ described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byV Letters Patent, is

1. In a cemetery car, thev combination, with pairs'of axles-at right angles to eachy other, of track wheels carried by onepair of' axles, roadwheels carried byv the other pair,` of" axles, said road wheels extending to points lowerthan said track-wheels, and7 a car bodyunder which said axlesare mounted, saidbody havinga dumping bottom, pi'voted: sides and a' pivot-ed top; l

In a cemetery car, the combination, with pairs of axles at right angles to each other, of' trackI wheels mountedv on one pair of' said axles,` roadf wheels mounted on the other pair ofaxlesA and extending topoint's lower than said track wheels, a carr body under which all sai'd axles are mountedg said body having adumping bottom andy sides:y slanting upwardly and outwardly from said* bottom.

3. In a cemetery car, the combination, with a car having road wheels and'V track' wheels, the road' wheels extending tol points lower than said track wheels, of; a body mountedon said'wheel's and having la dump'- ing bottom,y withmeans, such asa ratchet; for dumping said bottom, of rails, adapted tobe placedi beside an` openl graveon; which said traclrwheels may run so as'to-permit movement of? the car body over the'open grave. f

1i.' In a. cemetery car, the combination, with a car-having track wheels, and a." body supported by saidvy wheels, said`- body having a dumping bottom, and pivoted top 'and sides, ofirails, adaptedto beplacedbesidean open grave,.on whichsaidtrack wheelsmay i by al hook, off 130 rails, on which said Wheels may run so as to top which may be held upright by a hook, 10 carry the car body over an open grave and of rails, on which said car Wheels may run permit dumping dirt directly from the car so as to carry the car body adjacent a grave body into the open grave. site, whereby dirt taken from a grave may 5 6. In a cemetery car, the combination, be thrown over a downwardly turned side with a car having track Wheels, and a body of the oar body into the oar. 15

supported by said wheels, said body having In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

sides with pivoted portions which may be separately turned downward, and a pivoted JOHN M. KINCADE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the patentee in Letters Patent No. 1,266,601, grantedvMay 21, 1918, upon the application of John M. Kincade, for

an improvement in Cemetery-Cars, was erroneously Written and printed as Springelch Massachusetts, Whereas said residence should have been Written and printed as Springfield, 07m; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ca .se in the Patent Office. i

Signed and sealed this 29th day of October, A. D., 1918.

[SEAL] R. F. WHITEHEAD,

, Acting Commissioner of Patents. C1. 1o5-14. 

